Sharon Marcus

From the early sixties to the mid-eighties this highty reflective novel, set frequently in downtown Toronto, traces events in the lives of Jennie W...

This collection of brief lyrical verse is made up of two short books joined together, A Traveller's Notebook and The Last Word.They are intended as...

You will be the chronicler," Adam Hubble tells his new wife Alia who fulfills her obligation some years later by writing Adam's Story. Composed in ...

Five Times of Prayer is a mystical Sufi explanation of the five daily prayers performed under the umbrella known as Islam, the path to purity, the ...

Poet and novelist Sharon Marcus describes her meeting and years with the great Sufi sage and Saint M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen as the miraculous interse...

These two books of poems show different aspects of the poet's life, Nonexistent Poems exploring the remembrance and grief of attachment to the worl...

Like an illuminated book of hours, Record of Days transcribes the outer passage of time as an account of days, building simultaneously on a paralle...

Not revelation, but the accent, the flavor of revelation, this commentary offers a description or analysis of the mysteries at the heart of Sufi ex...

When the boatman ferrying souls of the dead across the river is on holiday, we linger on the far shore of hell, sweat and study the terrain. For th...

The Canticles is a collection of brief but intense lyrics reflecting the ups and down in the poet's life over a two year period. With these poems S...

Sharon Marcus is a Sufi poet, novelist and explorer of meaning in her non-fiction. With these poems she presents a collection of all those she want...

This is the voyage of the soul which moves in its own direction, away from the world to planes of inner light where truth is it's own resonance and...

Talking about these early poems, Sharon Marcus has said that the sound of darkness here, is at least in part, the sound of the poet searching for a...

A novella in the ancient Sufi tradition of storytelling, The Stradivarius Poems adopts a contemporary form to lament the fragile nature of human lo...

A tradition on the nature of consciousness offers a platform to build an ascent to the revelations of divine wisdom, mysteries as irrelevant to the...